spinal tap

Questions about spinal tap

What is another word for spinal tap?

It depends which spinal tap you mean. In the sense “removal by centesis of fluid from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes”, the synonyms are lumbar puncture, spinal puncture. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of spinal tap?

WordNet records no antonym for spinal tap. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for spinal tap come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of spinal tap

• Full entry for spinal tapAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for spinal tapWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.